Turquoise compass rose - Silver Earrings

Silver Earrings, white on turquoise Compass rose pendant

Earring type: hook
Length: 17 mm (distance between the hole of the ear and that of the pendant)
Material: plated alloy
Color: Silver
Mid-length, the hook loops adapt to any type of face and hairstyle and combine with pendants of all sizes.
For your comfort and safety, La Blanche Hermine offers you a pair of rubber stopper tips.

Pattern: Compass rose
Pattern color: white on turquoise
13x18mm cameo glass cabochon
Setting color: silver
At the time (fifteenth or sixteenth century), it was not yet the standard to position the north at the top of a map, one or more compass roses were inserted.
Some old sea charts (portulans) were very richly ornamented, dedicated to a prince or an admiral. They were of course not made to be used at sea.
And on the richest manuscripts, the compass roses can be particularly complex with geometric, mechanical and floral patterns, which, mounted in jewelry, look a lot like Art Nouveau.